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AIDS ravaging OFWs |
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DOH notes increasein cases |
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HIV/AIDS is ravaging the
country’s large overseas work force, posing a long-term threat to
one of its key sources of foreign exchange, the Department of Health
said.
Thirty-five percent of all
documented cases of HIV carriers are overseas Filipino workers (OFWs),
including 42 percent of the newly reported cases in 2006, according
to new data released by the department.
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Day-care owner
holds 32 schoolkids captive in bus
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The owner of a day-care center in
Tondo held hostage a busload of children from the school for
nine-and-a-half hours, demanding that the government provide housing
and a college education for them.
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Jingle segues from
ASO to POSA
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After ASO comes POSA.
POSA is the new jingle released Wednesday by Rez Cortes of the
National Council of Concerned Volunteers (NCCV). It stands for the
surnames of Team Unity senatorial candidates...
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Do-gooder craves
for an audience
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Friends know Amadeo Ducat as a
do-gooder with an eye for publicity stunts.
Ducat had built a nursery school to give a start to the children of
desperate slum dwellers who inhabit a drugs- and crime-blighted
sliver ...
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Lakas-Kampi feud a
‘Palace ploy’ to control House
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The looming showdown between
administration allies Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD)
and the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) in the Fourteenth
Congress is part of Malacañang’s plan to control...
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Immigration chief
to run for mayor
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COMMISSIONER Alipio Fernandez Jr.
of the Bureau of Immigration will resign Wednesday to run for mayor
of Dagupan City.
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